![]() You should also know that you can’t reorder layers when one of those layers is left as a “floating selection” type of layer. Ya gotta make it part of a regular layer. Remember: You can’t do many “foo-foo” things with a floating selection. In other words, the two things (layers) become a single entity one layer does not float above the other. After you have clicked on the layer that is named “Text Layer,” do this: Go to the menu and select “Layer > Anchor Layer.” This anchors the “floating selection” text layer (formed from pasting text from Draw into Gimp) to the transparent layer underneath it.We’ve already created a transparent layer and called it “Text Layer.” This just means we need to join (anchor) our pasted “floating” text layer to an already-existing regular text layer. NOTE: Your layers palette will show the pasted text as being named, “Floating Selection (pasted layer).” A floating selection is a layer that actually floats above all layers until it is put (anchored) somewhere to a regular layer. This pastes what you did in Draw ABOVE (it’s called a “floating selection”) your transparent Gimp text layer. Open Gimp and click on the transparent layer we’ve previously named “Text Layer” (not the background layer) and from the menu select “Edit > Paste”.With everything still selected, from the top menu select “Edit > Copy”.But for now, set the width to 0.03 inch for our tutorial. You can choose a thicker line, should you wish to give the impression of comic-book-type text, for example. You’ll find a good, normal range for stroking text is between 0.01 inch and 0.03 inch. From the top menu select, “Format > Line > Style > Continuous” and then – in the same dialog box, choose a width of the line to be 0.03″. You are about to add your stroke around your text. You’ve now converted the text (and all of the individual letters to curves). Once you’ve resized the box, and the greenish-blue selection handles are still showing, go to the top menu and select “Item > Modify > Convert > To Curve.” This is the same as Photoshop’s “rasterize text”.Use the handles to resize the text box to “crop” to the text within the box. The handles display in one of two colors, depending on the number of times you click – red or greenish-blue. When you click on that blue box, you’ll see handles. Now, click OUTSIDE the text box and then click on the text ONCE. NOTE: DO NOT add a drop shadow to the text.On the right side of the page, set the font to “Impact” and then set size to 66 points. Click inside the box and then type, “OUR ROCK” (no quote marks). Create text with these parameters: With the “Text” tool, draw a box to hold your text (the size of the box doesn’t matter).Open OpenOffice Draw (hereafter after called “Draw”) and select “Drawing” from the main menu.Then create another transparent layer – which will be used to paste your text into from OpenOffice Draw. Open Gimp and create a document that is 478 pixels wide and 270 pixels high with a transparent background.Follow the bouncing tutorial ball below, should you choose to participate in this exercise. You can use your own drawing program if you prefer, of course. OpenOffice Draw and Gimp 2.8 will be used for this tip. I said that to say this: One part of OpenOffice is called OpenOffice Draw (similiar to Adobe Illustrator or Microsoft Draw). ![]() OpenOffice is also multi-parted, and you can download it from. The open-source answer, and free, counterpart to Microsoft Office is OpenOffice. Why that is so may well become the subject of another post.įirst, be aware that Microsoft Office is also expensive, and has several parts, to include its drawing sub-program in the suite. A lot of people have a lot of ideas about adding a stroke path to text in Gimp, which is the open-source, and free, answer to PhotoShop’s bloated and overpriced image manipulation program.īut I digress – and yes, I have both programs. ![]()
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